Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cause-of-death analysis of life expectancy changes in 24 countries, 2015 to 2022 by Polizzi, A, Zhang, L, Timonin, S, Gupta, A, Dowd, JB, Leon, DA, Aburto, JM

“…By 2022, life expectancy had still not returned to prepandemic levels in several countries. …”

Computational analysis for infectious diseases surveillance and host-pathogen interactions (in the context of Influenza A viruses) by Beyene, Biruhalem Taye

“…Prediction of the next pandemic strain is still a major challenge as mechanisms of antigenic shift and the zoonotic nature of influenza viruses are still poorly understood. …”
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Supported Lipid Bilayer Platform To Test Inhibitors of the Membrane Attack Complex: Insights into Biomacromolecular Assembly and Regulation by Yorulmaz, Saziye, Jackman, Joshua Alexander, Hunziker, Walter, Cho, Nam-Joon

“…On the other hand, clusterin directly interacts with C5b-7 such that C5b-7 is still able to bind to the lipid bilayer, and clusterin affects the subsequent binding of other complement proteins involved in the MAC assembly. …”
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Characterization of ubiquitin-activated DNA-protein crosslink repair in vitro by Zhu, X

“…DPCs repair is critical for maintaining genome stability, however, the knowledge of the DPC repair pathways is still limited. SPRTN, a DNA-dependent metalloprotease, has been identified as the major protease in repairing DPCs. …”

Investigation of blood pressure regulation schemes by Chai, Chang Yong

“…Hence, continuous monitoring and careful control of the infusion of drug is required. Since the middle 1970s, many researches have been conducted using various types of feedback control system to regulate blood pressure through the infusion of antihypertension drug [5]. …”
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NIR-light-intensified hypoxic microenvironment for cascaded supra-prodrug activation and synergistic chemo/photodynamic cancer therapy by Chen, Hongzhong, Sun, Tao, Zeng, Weiwei, Zeng, Xiaowei, Mei, Lin, Jiang, Chen, Zhao, Yanli

“…Despite that photodynamic therapy (PDT) has promising clinical prospect, its therapeutic efficacy is still restricted by the hypoxic tumor microenvironment (TME). …”
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SemFunSim : a new method for measuring disease similarity by integrating semantic and gene functional association by Cheng, Liang, Li, Jie, Ju, Peng, Peng, Jiajie, Wang, Yadong

“…Functional associations between disease-related genes and semantic associations between diseases are often used to identify pairs of similar diseases from different perspectives. Currently, it is still a challenge to exploit both of them to calculate disease similarity. …”
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Organic solvent-assisted control of hydrogel structures and properties by Zhou, Quan

“…Hydrogels are three-dimensional (3D) cross-linked polymeric networks containing a significant amount of water and have found their applications in various fields, including tissue engineering, drug delivery, etc. However, major limitations still exist for hydrogels, especially their mechanical weakness, which limits their use in load-bearing applications. …”
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The influence of additives on the delivery of paclitaxel from bioresorbable PLGA films by Huang, Charlotte Liwen.

“…The study of the influences of additives on the drug delivery characteristics from PLGA thin films as a coating on angioplasty balloons was reported in this thesis. …”
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Optimizing OOD Detection in Molecular Graphs: A Novel Approach with Diffusion Models by Shen, Xu, Wang, Yili, Zhou, Kaixiong, Pan, Shirui, Wang, Xin

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Quality of life and healthcare service utilization among methadone maintenance patients in a mountainous area of Northern Vietnam by Nguyen, Long Hoang, Nguyen, Lan Huong Thi, Boggiano, Victoria L., Hoang, Canh Dinh, Van Nguyen, Hung, Le, Huong Thi, Le, Hai Quan, Tran, Tho Dinh, Tran, Bach Xuan, Latkin, Carl A., Zary, Nabil, Vu, Minh Thuc Thi

“…Background: The expansion of methadone maintenance treatment in mountainous areas in still limited and little is known about its health impacts on drug users. …”
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Detection of florfenicol resistance in opportunistic Acinetobacter spp. infections in rural Thailand by Tan, Bernice Siu Yan, Mohan, Lalit, Watthanaworawit, Wanitda, Ngamprasertchai, Thundon, Nosten, Francois H., Ling, Clare, Bifani, Pablo

“…Ff shares cross-resistance with chloramphenicol, which is still in use in several countries. Furthermore, by selecting for floR-resistance genes, we may be selecting for and facilitating the zoonotic and reverse zoonotic exchange of other flanking resistance markers between human and animal pathogens or commensals with detrimental public health consequences.…”
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An analysis of heavy silicone oil treatment for inferior proliferative vitreoretinopathy by Hammer, M, Ie, A, Eibenberger, K, Auffarth, GU, Xue, K

“…The number of glaucoma drugs were increased in 45% of patients during Densiron tamponade. …”

Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…The Ag@Au structure has still single crystalline nature and can have sharp tips depend on the particle's initial morphology. …”
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Low-power processors for implantable epileptic seizure detection system by Baihaqi, Muhammad Rayhan

“…Despite several treatments are available to suppress the seizure such as anti-epileptic drugs and surgery, around 25% of the epileptic patients still experiences the seizure. …”
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Multi-Modal Protein Function Prediction using a Joint Embedding Space from Two Graph Neural Networks by Tysinger, Emma P.

“…There’s a growing need for precise and quick computational prediction methods, filling the gap between sequence discovery and functional understanding. …”
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Genetic and molecular characterisation of non-tissue culture adapted influenza B viruses detected in Singapore between 2004-2009 by Muhammad Raihan Jumat

“…Even so, the mechanism yielding this peptide is still unknown since caspase and MMP inhibitors did not have an effect in its expression. …”
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Revealing the biotoxicity of phosphorene oxide nanosheets based on the villin headpiece by Zhang, Wei, Gou, Yuanyuan, Cheng, Li, Dong, Kaiwei, Sheng, Yijie, Ye, Chao, Yang, Xianqing, Mu, Yuguang

“…Phosphorene, a novel member of the two-dimensional nanomaterial family, has demonstrated great potential in biomedical applications, such as photothermal therapy, drug delivery and antibacterial. However, phosphorene is unstable and easily oxidized in an aerobic environment. …”
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Cell charactetization in differnet regions of the native annulus fibrous in a porcine intervetebral disc model through cell sorting and molecular analysis by Teo, Tong

“…However, the cell biology of the AF is still poorly understood especially the different cell types that exist within the AF. …”
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Cheaper Than A Funeral: Considering Ibogaine’s Psychedelic Journey and Therapeutic Potential by Daly, Noah

“…It is also considered the most extreme of the psychedelic drugs currently known to researchers. For the past fifty years, it’s been used to treat severe substance use disorders, particularly with highly addictive opioids and stimulants. …”
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